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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. ceases, dated. July 17, 1900. I

Application filed November 15, 1399. Serial No. 737,086. (No model.) I l I l In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved plow. Fig. 2 is a similar viewwith parts broken away and the disk removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the landside. Fig. 4 isa similar view of the point.

1 represents the beam, of I shape in crosssection and given a curvature desired by the manufacturer.

2 is a vertical standard integral with and depending from the beam 1, said standard be-' ing provided with a series of bolt holes or openings 3. The standard 2 must be straight from its juncture with the beam 1 to its lower end.

4 is a forwardly-extending lug integral with the bottom of the standard 2 and provided.

with suitable bolt openings or holes 5.

6 is the landside, provided with a series of bolt-openings '7 and 8, said landside being connected to the standard by means of bolts 9, which pass through the openings 5 in the standard and 7 in the landside.

10 is a brace the rear end of which is provided with a series of bolt-openings -11, the forward end of said brace being secured to the landside by means of a bolt 12, which passes through said brace and through one of the openings 8 in the landside, according to the adjustment'of the same. The other end of the brace 10 is adjustably secured to the standard 2 by means of the bolt 13, which passes through one of the series of openings in said standard.

14 is a lug extending from one side of the point of the landside, and 1-5 is an upwardlyextending flange on the outer edge of said lug.

16 is a bolt-opening in the landside,

17 is the plow-point, provided with an elongated slot 18, through which the bolt 19 passes 7 into. the. bolt-opening 16 onth'e landsidef'to adjustably secure said point to the landside. This point 17 is secured. as, just described, and is prevented from turning crosswise of the draft by means of the fiange-15. The point may also be adjusted up and. downiby means of the elongated slot 18, andwhenone end of said point is worn it maybe reversed byloosening the bolt 19 to presenta new point to the ground. f

20 represents handle-brackets secured to the standard 2 by means of a suitable 'bolt. 21 represents the usual shares connected to said brackets, and 22 represents braces extending from the upper end of said handles to the plow-beam in the usual manner.- I 23 is a plate having a bolt-opening near each end, and2i is a ball-bearing journalbox integral with said plate. This plate is adj u'stably secured in the desired position on the standard 2 by means of the bolts 25. 26 'is a colter secured to the plow-beam by means of the bolts 27.

28 is a disk the journal 29 of which is journaled in the bearing 24. Thisdisk28 is set at an angle of about forty degrees toward the unplowed land, so that it will tear up and turn the ground, while the top of the disk leans backward about twenty degrees, thus causing the disk to draw into. or under the ground when in operation. This disk 28 is 23 upon the standard 2. In this connection it may be stated that when the adjustment of the disk 28 is changed the landside 6 is-adjusted accordingly in order that these two elements may cooperate.

30 is a bracket or clamp secured to the beam 1 and provided with a set-screw 31.

32 is a scraper provided with a hanging bar. 33, the upper end ofwhich is secured within the clamp 30 by means of the set-screw 31. This scraper 32 isadapted tofree the disk 28 of dirt, &c. e c

In plowing land with tallor tough grass with a disk plow it has heretofore been found that the disk in many cases merely crushes or presses the grass down into theground,

adjustable through the medium of the plate especially when the ground is very soft. This objection is overcome in my plow by means of the colter 26, which divides the grass in a straight line immediately in front of the disk 28.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a plow of the character described, the combination with a beam, an integral vertically-depending standard having a series of bolt-openings, a j ournal-bearing vertically adjustable, secured to said standard, a cuttingdisk jonrnaled in said bearing, of a landside, two series of bolt-openings in the same, and a brace provided with a series of bolt-holes in one end, and a single hole in the other, said brace extending from the forward part of the landside to the standard and said landside being adjustable on the standard.

2. In a plow of the character described, the combination with the plow-beam having a depending standard, of a landside having two series of bolt-openings, and a brace, one end of which is provided with a series of boltopenings; the forward end of said brace being secured in the desired hole of one of the series of bolt-openings in the landside,whi1e the other end is secured to-the'standard; said landside being connected to the standard by bolts passing through the other series of boltopenings.

' 3. In a plow of the character described, the combination with the plow-beam having a depending straight vertical standard provided with a series of bolt-openings, a-plate having a journal-bearing adj ustably secured to said standard, a cutting disk mounted in said journal-bearing at an angle to the standard, and a scraper for said disk; of alandside adjnstably secured to the bottom of the said standard, a lug extending from one side of the point of said landside, provided with an upwardly-extending flange, a reversible and adjustable point secured on said lug, an adj ustable brace extending from the forward end of the landside and connected to the standard of the beam, and a colter connected to said beam immediatelyin front of the said disk.

EDWARD FOWLER. 

